Here's how the United States reacted to a proposal to legalize drugs in Mexico

United States.- The White House has declared that it opposes the possibility for Mexico to legalize "all drugs" in its country after Andrés Manuel López Obrador did not reject that can be considered the decriminalization of some narcotics.

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"We would not support the legalization of any drugs anywhere, and certainly we would not want to do something that could allow more drugs to enter our country " White House spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at a press conference. López Obrador to legalize "all drugs" in Mexico, although this is not exactly what the future president has proposed.

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The next Secretary of the Interior, Olga Sánchez Cordero suggested two weeks ago to decriminalize the Recreational use of marijuana and poppy to "pacify" the country, which suffers from high rates In a presentation, Sánchez Cordero said that the elected president will rule out any way to pacify the country among which the "decriminalization of the drug", although he spoke in general terms and without specifying which stupefiant he spoke.

In the United States, nine states and the city of Washington have decriminalized the recreational use of marijuana, but the US Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, has ordered to comply with federal legislation that states that the use of marijuana is illegal, which has generated confusion in the country.

Sanders also reiterated today, in his pre-ensa conference, that the United States made "a lot of progress in the talks with Mexico" to conclude a bilateral trade agreement although he suggested that this did not necessarily mean the end of the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. (NAFTA)

"We continue with conversations in both channels," said Sanders questioned on and the future of the 1994 treaty with Mexico and Canada.

US President Donald Trump said today that his government had had "very good" talks with López Obrador's team on the eventual "bilateral" trade agreement.

"Mexico is doing very well with us, we have had very good conversations with them, and I can say that things are moving forward and we are getting closer and closer," continued the president, adding that 39, he would negotiate with Canada "later"